Jay Gould - Death

Death

Gould died of tuberculosis on December 2, 1892, and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. His fortune was conservatively estimated to be $72 million for tax purposes. He willed all of his fortune to his family. At the time of his death, Gould was a benefactor in the reconstruction of the Reformed Church of Roxbury, now the Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church. It is located within the Main Street Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The family mausoleum was designed by Francis O'Hara (1830–1900) of Ireland. Gould's mausoleum contains no external identification.

Jay Gould married Helen Day Miller (1838–1889) in 1863 and had six children:

• George Jay Gould I (1864–1923), married Edith M. Kingdon (1864–1921)
  • Kingdon Gould, Sr. (1887–1945) who married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci (1890–1961).
  • Jay Gould II (1888–1935) who was a tennis player and who married Anne Douglass Graham.
  • Marjorie Gould (1891–1955) who married Anthony Joseph Drexel II
  • Helen Vivien Gould (1893–1931) who married John Graham Hope DeLaPoer Horsley Beresford (1866–1945)
  • George Jay Gould II (1896-?) who married Laura Carter
  • Edith Catherine Gould (1901–1937) who married Carroll Livingston Wainwright I (1899–1967) and after a divorce married Sir Hector Murray MacNeal
  • Gloria Gould (1906–1943) who married Henry A. Bishop II, and after a divorce married Walter McFarlane Barker.
• Edwin Gould I (1866–1933), married Sarah Cantine Shrady She inherited $US 10,000,000 upon his death. They had two sons:
  • Edwin Gould, Jr., (1894–1917). He died on Jekyl Island in 1917.
  • Frank Miller Gould (c1895-1945). He graduated from Yale in 1920, married Florence Amelia Bacon on November 17, 1924, she was from Dallas, Texas. Frank died on January 13, 1945. They had two children:
    • Marianne Gould (1926 - January 21, 1957)
    • Edwin Jay Gould (1932- ).
• Helen Gould (1868–1938), married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867–1942) They adopted three children, Finley Jay, named for Finley Johnson Shepard and Jay Gould, and Olivia, named for Helen's dear friend Mrs. Russell Sage, and Helen Anna, named for Helen and her sister, Anna and had one foster child, Louis Seton. The first of the adopted children, Finley Jay Shepard, was a three-year-old abandoned child who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. They later adopted two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, of her brother Frank Gould.
• Howard Gould (1871–1959), married Viola Katherine Clemmons on October 12, 1898; and later married actress Grete Mosheim in 1937
• Anna Gould (1875–1961), married Paul Ernest Boniface, Comte de Castellane (1867–1932); and after a divorce married Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 5th duke of Talleyrand, 5th duc of Dino, 4th Duke von Sagan, and Prince of Sagan (1858–1937) With Boniface, Anna had the following five children:
  • Marie Louise Boniface de Castellane (1896-?)
  • Antoine Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), married Yvonne Patenôtre (daughter of Jules Patenôtre and wife Eleanor Elverson, sister of James Elverson, Jr. (?–1929) and daughter of publisher James Elverson (1838 – 1911) by wife Sallie Duvall, the three of them owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer). He had daughter Elisabeth de Castellane (Paris, July 9, 1928 – Paris, November 13, 1991), wife (married in Paris, December 7, 1948) of Jean Bertrand Jacques Adrien Nompar Comte de Caumont La Force (Paris, February 4, 1920 – Fontaine Française, June 8, 1986).
  • Georges Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane (1897 or 1899–1944), married Florinda Fernández y Anchorena (1901-?). They had daughter:
    • Diane Rose Anne Marie de Castellane (born in Paris, February 19, 1927). She married Philippe François Armand Marie Duc de Mouchy Prince-Duc de Poix (born in Paris, April 17, 1922) in Paris in a civil ceremony on April 14, 1948; and a church ceremony on April 20, 1948. They divorced on March 13, 1974.
  • Georges Gustave Boniface de Castellane (circa 1898-1946)
  • Jay Boniface de Castellane (1902-?)

With Talleyrand, Anna had the following two children:

• • Howard de Talleyrand, duc de Sagan (1909–1929), he took his own life when told he could not marry.
  • Helen Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord (1915–2003), she married James Robert de Pourtales on March 29, 1937, in Val Saint-Germain, she then divorced in 1969, and married Gaston Palewski (1901–1984), he was the Minister of Scientific Research and Atomic and Space Questions from 1962 to 1966. They married on March 20, 1969, in Paris.
• Frank Jay Gould (1877–1956), married Helen Kelley; then Edith Kelly; and then Florence La Caze (1895–1983)

• 1836 Birth of Jay Gould as Jason Gould
• 1841 Death of Mary Moore Gould, mother
• 1850 Jay Gould in US census in Roxbury, New York
• 1856 Publication of History of Delaware County
• 1863 Marriage to Helen Day Miller (1838–1889)
• 1864 Birth of George Jay Gould I, his son
• 1866 Death of John Burr Gould, his father
• 1866 Birth of Edwin Gould, his son
• 1868 Birth of Helen Gould, his daughter
• 1869 Black Friday
• 1870 Jay Gould in US census in first Manhattan home
• 1870 Jay Gould in US census in second Manhattan home
• 1871 Birth of Howard Gould, his son
• 1875 Birth of Anna Gould, his daughter
• 1877 Birth of Frank Gould, his son
• 1880 Purchase of Lyndehurst from the widow of George Merritt, shortening name to Lyndhurst
• 1880 Jay Gould in US census in Greenburgh, New York
• 1889 Death of Helen Day Miller, his wife
• 1892 Obituary of Jay Gould